Pentagon denies Iran’s claims that US tried to detain tanker

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A video grab shows an Iranian soldier on a jet boat in front of a US warship during the seizure of a Vietnam-flagged oil tanker in the Sea of Oman. EPA

US officials said it was Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month

The Pentagon has denied claims Iranian forces thwarted an attempt by the US to detain a tanker carrying Iran’s oil in the Sea of Oman.

US officials said it was Iran’s Revolutionary Guards who seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month, while US naval forces were just monitoring the situation.

“I’ve seen the Iranian claims, they are absolutely totally false and untrue … it’s a bogus claim,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

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Joel Cholo Brooks is a Liberian journalist who previously worked for several international news outlets including the BBC African Service. He is the CEO of the Global News Network which publishes two local weeklies, The Star and The GNN-Liberia Newspapers. He is a member of the Press Union Of Liberia (PUL) since 1986, and several other international organizations of journalists, and is currently contributing to the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation as Liberia Correspondent.

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